A 3-issue zine exploring how we cope with death from the margins.

Welcome

We are caught within the gears of a system that is primed to generate loss, trauma, and grief while leaving us scrambling and struggling for the resources and social supports we need to process grief. To claim our grief–to claim that our relationships with each other matter–within this climate of isolation and denial is itself a radical act.

The Worst is a compilation zine in 3 issues (self-published in 2008, 2010, and 2013) where contributors were invited to share their experiences with grief and loss. Many authors write from outside the mainstream models for grieving, or about specific kinds of losses that receive little validation in our society. The zine particularly seeks to attend to those who've felt shut out or silenced in their grief, who are not seen or understood, and who find little comfort in the few grief rituals capitalist society offers to us. Though no calls for submissions are active at the moment, this is a place to preserve the dialogues, ideas, experiences, and community of the zine.